Artifice NYC, Inc. A 501(c)(3) curatorial research nonprofit working between creative science and new media fictions
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01The missionmission-vision.md
02The lanemission-vision.md
03The visionmission-vision.md
04The two containersChapters/README.md
05The programs02_Gallery/PROGRAMS.png
06What you say outside the roompositioning-strategy.md
07The two tierspositioning-strategy.md
08Historyread from disk
09The reference recordNodes/history/context.md
10Who is accountableauthority-matrix.yaml
11The seatscomposition-2026.md
12The ownership mapteam-sop.md
13Action tiersauthority-matrix.yaml
14The stackauthority-matrix.yaml
15The runtimekb-infrastructure.md
16Folders and boardsrouting-table.md
17The web surfacesread from Websites/
18The collateralartificenyc.org
19The map · rootread from disk
20The map · inside 01_Artifice NYCread from disk
21The recordregistry-model.md
22Programs on diskONBOARDING.md
23Writing hereONBOARDING.md
24The ten rules_kb/CONVENTIONS.md
25Agentsworking-with-agents.md
26Legacy_kb/CONVENTIONS.md
27Your first four thingsONBOARDING.md
28Where to look nextONBOARDING.md
AFXOPSevery line sourced from the vault · built 2026-09-07
01 · the mission
What Artifice is for.
Artifice NYC is a curatorial research nonprofit working between creative science and new media fictions. We produce immersive, site-specific showcases and open creative infrastructure (a public archive practitioners build and control), shaping how speculative practice and emerging technology define the way we live.
04_Marketing & Communications/03_References/mission-vision.md · canonical. Quoted whole, not paraphrased. If another document states it differently, that file wins.
02 · the lane
Artifice is open curatorial.
Sister vocabulary to open source and open access. The claim is methodological, not aspirational: curatorial process operating on documented principles.
Pair it with a noun: open curatorial principles, practice, method. Until open-curatorial-principles.md is drafted it is the category claim under the mission, never the lead in funder materials.
press boilerplateheadline-safe
Artifice NYC is a 501(c)(3) curatorial research nonprofit working between creative science and new media fictions, producing immersive, site-specific showcases and open creative infrastructure (a public archive practitioners build and control) that shapes how speculative practice and emerging technology define the way we live.
mission-vision.md · Positioning, 2026-05-31
03 · the vision
Most work reaches the public already finished. Artifice shows the rest of it.
Most experimental work reaches the public already finished: the process folded away, the false starts cut, the decisions that mattered left out. Artifice shows the rest of it. In Chapters and nodes, work appears while it is still being figured out: in the lab, where the making stays in view (WHITEBOX), and on the stage, where you meet it before anyone explains it (BLACKBOX). We use science fiction as a method, studying the technology already arriving through the futures we imagine for it. A piece might begin as something on a screen and become a room you walk through; the people who made it record that passage in the Artifact Index, deciding what it includes and how it is held.
mission-vision.md · Vision
04 · the signature format
WHITEBOX and BLACKBOX. The lab and the stage.
Decided 2026-09-08: the format is the through line, not the series. A program is conceived as a WHITEBOX and BLACKBOX pairing first, and is not required to belong to a numbered run.
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a gallery displaying creative science and material inquiry: biomaterials, chemical processes, and physical transformation in formation. Said in public as the lab.
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a stage performing new media fictions : staging immersive, time-based experiences that shape perception. Said in public as the stage.
A Chapter pairs the two inside a single visit, so audiences move between process and experience within a continuous narrative. This dual structure is what differentiates Artifice from galleries and traditional exhibition formats. Both are formats, not stages and not folders. A property carried on the record, so the same work can be shown either way.
00_Admin/decision-freeform-programs-2026-09-08.md · Chapters/README.md · covers pulled from artificenyc.org
05 · the series
Chapters and nodes:, slated legacy.
Neither series is retired, deleted or renamed. Both keep their folders, their blueprints and their history exactly where they are. [ ENTER ] is not addressed by the decision.
02_Gallery/PROGRAMS.png, the gallery board unedited · 00_Admin/decision-freeform-programs-2026-09-08.md
06 · what you say outside the room
Two sentences.
the retell versionhas to survive a party
Artifice runs a lab and a stage for artists working with technology, and keeps a public record of how the work gets made.
If a member says it wrong and it still lands, it is working.
the formal versiondocuments, press
Artifice is a 501(c)(3) curatorial research organization shaping and linking artifacts through science fiction.
02_Operations/03_Governance/positioning-strategy.md · The one move
07 · the two tiers
Public words, and archive words.
We have a taxonomy surplus, not a taxonomy problem.
public tierthree common words, no glossary
the lab · the stage · the record
internal tierfor provenance, not pitch
WHITEBOX / BLACKBOX
Chapters · nodes: · [ ENTER ]
RADAR · PROFILES · ATLAS · INDEX
The gate: if a term needs brand.artificenyc.org to be understood, it does not go in a press release, an intro email, or someone’s mouth. Program names surface publicly only attached to a concrete thing (an event, an issue, a work), never as an org explainer.
Three days, five simultaneous zones, 20 artifacts, 176 checked in against 394 RSVPs, $2,408.41 revenue split 50/50 with the venue partner. The Scale band in the nodes: Blueprint is derived from it because it is the only edition with a complete record.
Every typed note carries entity: nonprofit or shared. If you cannot say which, stop and ask.
keepdecision
---
type: decision
entity: nonprofit
status: active
date: 2026-08-10
author: renaise
source: agent:claude-code
---
Decided 2026-08-10: the SOW floor is $18K.
States what is true and when it became true.
neverthe same note, imperative
---
type: decision
---
We should set an SOW floor.
TODO: set floor.
An imperative sentence gets read by the next agent as a task it is supposed to do, and the same work gets attempted every session. The missing entity tag is the second bug.
00_Start Here/ONBOARDING.md · Writing here
24 · the ten rules
Each carries its reason.
A rule without its mechanism gets rationalised away.
01Search before writing. Append to the note that exists. Duplicates fork the truth and the second copy is never maintained.
02Declarative, never imperative. Notes are records. An imperative sentence gets re-read as a directive and the same task is attempted every session.
03One concept per file. Retrieval, linking and status all operate per-file.
